Show ITY TY CONFIDENT OF F WI WINNING RELAY POINT INi GAS STRiKE NNED SAY I ir r Accepts Invitation on to Act for Then TheIn ring About i of Differences Sr r r Reed Smoot at nt tho the Sit ill Lake lAko Gas Workers Gas union red yesterday to mediate t this thi tho thou u es s between b t een the gas as worker workers Utah Gas Coke e company en ento en- en 1 to secure a pr promise Iron from R. R Horning the company mant manat man man- at t he Jie would meet a o committee committe union u in an on effort to brinG n. In response the thi pany pany manager manas-cr is said to havi have that he would be bo willing Willingto t the temen to toie he ie emen men in a no tx body y without t ac ac- the tho plan of ot meeting tho the tee tee which ha has endeavored t tl to l wage age gc a adjustment will be bo no strike of oC gas com corn loves today Tho workers worker t If U the men aro not working working- be because the they have hare beer been out cut ul by the company or pany takes akes the th Initiative Ir In ting a strike riB cis s the th positive assurance hS h'S h S Salt a Lake Herald at a a. late houi hour ht t. t b by workers at the gas plant Talk Talk Comes Come Prom From Company C e talk has all emanated from pany side of or the controversy of ot the tho men interviewed We Wc isted from tho beginning that e e. e at no time threatened te to the company did not meet our We VVe havo have repeatedly eXour exour ex- ex our ur willingness to arbitrate and If It the company compan sed d to effect a peaceable set- set of tho the matter there would be culty In finding finding- a a. wn way to to mutually satisfactory settler settle settle- BO p far r as the company's cm- cm emye ire ye concerned We ve do not pro- pro strike and arid will not Q our neu forced to reed to by b the company compan has submitted individual individuals ts s to some somo of or tho the men inca a aud ad id we formed intend to submit conto conto con- con to tD all an of ot the men Friday morn- morn ur ur men will not sign n them Wo Yo Mist upon our right to organize i deal with tho the company compan as aa an antion lation Uon tion and not as individuals ulon fulon that tho the company compan had haded t. t ted ed d contracts to some somo of ot their r as s made late yesterday eveninG e rge Il R. R Horning manager of the tho Gas Coke company but Mr r emphatically stated that no io nores ru res' res of coercion havo been ret re- re t to truy to their statements the theve ye ve e repeatedly threatened to th the they first presented their ds ds I. I declared Mr l Horning As s quence of these threats we have measures to see to It that the theOf theof of 01 the city have their usual gas no matter what action the thet t ma may take M approached by Senator Smoot S Barter j arter noon Mr lr Horning conS cone con- con S He e told me the men had vista vis ls ta to request that he ur urge c arbir arbi- arbi r r i-r r He said caid they Intimated the theT T Int Intended a lockout and an asked tato my position Ie Id the senator that the company company Plated no lockout but on the theT ther r T would be he glad to see ace the men Mr elt Jobs I explained that we dined arbitration although we wo won Il 11 In n principle simply because the v circumstances in which we wo r elves arbitration could ach ac- ac ach ach h n nothing If It the arbitration Awarded Warded ded the men anything moro more moroU moree U o e company had offered wo wot I pot t pay It I pointed out that j a. a private enterprise a a. public J Cannot Increase the price of or Its to o meet every Increase In opt op- op cost t tWe We must look to tho the state Utilities commission for do lo that and arid without an In- In if rates th tho company could not men men- tt the Increases they demand demandt going i.-going t bankrupt P ator or Smoot then asked if I be Willing winns to attend somo sorno kind together meeting and 1 I said WOUd uld be glad to meet tho em- em emot ot of two the gas plant In a body and andie the ie matter with them Ho lie sug- sug evening evening- aa as tho the time laced tho the offices of or the tho cornet corn com et t t- t his hilS disposal for the meeting men accept the tho invitation to at- at be- be e meeting it Is possible an am- am tle may map be reached company today received tenders food good offices of the Commercial he ioe tty ity commission and tho the InI In- In J I to all nil of ot whom 1 rc ame reply I made to Senator K bd to AVo Vork Irk k Longer I Hours R company has half proposed to tho the t t by slightly Increasing their theirs s I milking making a small reduction In of the tho force the tho company beable able to pa pay them what proc proc- to their original doe de- de Te bave e however refused to con- con renewal of tho clause clauso In the tho t. t respecting W f f- t l tha e mena ment representatives in tier t r of ot discharges because the they II It In ln such a n. way as 0 their clr committee tho the final au- au I We are perfectly willing to tomen men a as full fun a 0 hearing on such 0 os 3 a they may desire but wo Ste r o ou ourselves elves tho the right ht to dla- dla Ji om m w wo flee fit for tor other other- and atul morale of oC tho the QUId Ouid bo be destroyed |